Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "ZEH" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ZEH> On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> Could you tell us, which program you are packageing ? ZEH> Repackaging really, tleds.. Thats fine. I use it to monitor the ippp0 ISDN device >> Which files / w

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Zephaniah" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zephaniah> A few questions.. 1: What is a good way for handling the Zephaniah> version fields to reflect that the upstream version is a Zephaniah> beta? In this case the upstream version is 1.05beta10, Zephaniah> leaving me w

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Richard Braakman
Joseph Carter wrote: > Lintian checks against current standards version (or as current as it knows > about) You can probably up the standards version to whatever lintian was > built with. => No, there are large areas of policy that lintian does not check. It's a linter, not a validator! Richard

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:03 -0500, Zephaniah E, Hull wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [stuff deleted] > As far as doing the 2.0 first, errrm, someone else will have to test it > as I'm on 2.1.x kernels, I could do a quick test, but nothing overly > ex

Re: Cannot install Linux on laptop

1998-12-01 Thread Christoph Baumann
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:21:30AM -0500, Ignacio Garcia wrote: > I have tried installing Linux on my ThinkPad 385 XD, but it hasn't > worked. When I first tried to install it, I got a message tha said A20 > gating failed. So I changed the boot-up disk that I was using, and now > it goes through

Cannot install Linux on laptop

1998-12-01 Thread Ignacio Garcia
I have tried installing Linux on my ThinkPad 385 XD, but it hasn't worked. When I first tried to install it, I got a message tha said A20 gating failed. So I changed the boot-up disk that I was using, and now it goes through the initial motions of loading the kernel, then it restarts my computer.

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Zephaniah E, Hull
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "ZEH" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ZEH> 3: I've got a package which can be compiled with or without X > ZEH> support, However the X support does not work without changing a > ZEH> few settings in th

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "ZEH" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ZEH> 3: I've got a package which can be compiled with or without X ZEH> support, However the X support does not work without changing a ZEH> few settings in the X config, as I don't use X I'm not the best ZEH> one to try and figure out wha

Re: Compiling own system

1998-12-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:30:45 -0800, you wrote: >I don't blindly trust pgp or ssh or gnupg, for obvious reasons. Again, do you inspect the pgp sources before compiling them? If not, how do you make sure that the sources are trustworthy? Greetings Marc -- -- !!

A few quick questions

1998-12-01 Thread Sean P. Mason
I'm having a few problems running applications outside of root, and I was wondering if anyone would be able to assist me in correcting whatever is on the fritz. First is X11amp. It won't play any songs for some reason. Other MP3 players will play, but just not X11amp, which is my favorite. Licq

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread James Troup
"Zephaniah E, Hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently the only lintian warning is a ancient-standards-version, > which I am not wanting to bump up to current until I'm sure its > compliant.. /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz is your friend. (Well it's mine anyway.) -- J

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 07:17:51PM -0500, Zephaniah E, Hull wrote: > 1: What is a good way for handling the version fields to reflect that > the upstream version is a beta? In this case the upstream version is > 1.05beta10, leaving me with a bit of a problem (for when 1.05 is > actually released)..

A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-01 Thread Zephaniah E, Hull
A few questions.. 1: What is a good way for handling the version fields to reflect that the upstream version is a beta? In this case the upstream version is 1.05beta10, leaving me with a bit of a problem (for when 1.05 is actually released).. Note that I do have a good reason for packaging the bet